Dear and valued Friend!
We have got into a terrible state of procrastination, and I turn to you, as my sole real confidant and sympathetic associate in the work, to enjoin upon you to exert all of your strength to change matters.
What help would it be to me to insist upon Brückner's coming over to Bayreuth if you were not here at the same time? Brückwald pretends to be without help in executing his models, but promises to be ready in time.
Now you arrange a time for a general meeting; this must take place in October, because I am obliged to be at Vienna during November and half of December. Therefore, after consulting with the others, you decide this matter, and I shall support you by especial exhortations to the parties concerned. So let it be!
And accept cordial greetings from
Your very faithful
Richard Wagner.
Source: The Story of Bayreuth as Told in the Bayreuth Letters of Richard Wagner, trans. and ed. Caroline V. Kerr (Small, Maynard and Company, 1912), No. 82